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J. P. FRENCH HANDLE FOR FILES AND OTHER TOOLS.

Patented Nov. 6, 1883.

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JOSIAH F. ERENon, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR or oNE- HALEro THE J. BARTON SMITH ooMr NY, on SAME rLAoE.

HANDLE FOR FILES ANDOTHER TOOLS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,046, dated November6, 1883. Application filed September 18, 1863. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosIAH F. FRENoH, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certainImprovements in Handles 'for Files and other Tools, of which thefollowing is a specification. i e

My invention consists, mainly, of the combination of the tang of a fileor other tool and a threaded block permanently attached to the saidtang, with ahandle provided with ametal nut adapted to the said block,so that the ham dle may be securely fastened to the tang, allsubstantially as described hereinafter.

In'the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a sectional view, showing myimprovedhandle and tang for files and other tools; Fig. 2, a transversesection on the line 1 2; Fig. 3, a front view of the threaded blockattached to the tang; Figs. 4 and 5, modifications of the block, andFig. 6 a sectional view illustrating a modification of the handle.

Referring toFigs. 1, 2, and 3, A is the tapering tang of a file or othertool; B, the body of the handle, which is made of wood or otheravailable material, an opening extending entirely through the body inthe present in stance for receiving the tang A, and a metal tube, D, thelatter being internally threaded at one end, and there adapted to formthe nut for a threaded block, G, permanently secured to thetang A. Thehandle is applied to the tang and turned, so that the threaded end ofthe tube will be screwed into the block until the ferrule 32 of thehandle bears firmly against the shoulders m m of the file, the handlebeing then securely fastened to the file.

It should be stated here that I do not claim, broadly, a threaded blocksecurely fastened to the tang of a file or other tool in combinationwith ahandle intowhich the block is screwed, for this is shown in thePatent No. 7 7 ,332, granted April 28, 1868, in which, however, thethreaded block is screwed directly into the wood, and this forms a veryinsecure fastening, whereas in my invention a metal nut fixed in thehandle is adapted to the threaded block. 1

While I do not desire to restrict myself to any specific mode ofsecuring the threaded block to the tang, Iprefer to form on the latter atapering thread to accord with a Similar In or-' threaded at the cornersonly; or it mayhave but two flat sides, or even one, for adaptation to asuitable wrench; or a projection on the block clear of the threadedportion of the same, and indicated by dotted lines in Fig. I,

may be adapted to a wrench; or the block may be slotted to receive theend of a screw-driver,

as in Fig. 4; or a wrench of the character shown in Fig. 5 may beapplied to it.

In Fig. 6 the nut for the block is formed by internally threading theend of a metal tube, D, driven into the handle, the block G beingsecured to the tang near the shoulders m m of the tool, and the closedend of the tube forming an abutment for the tang; but I do not desiretoclaim this feature irrespective of the block, for aparallelly-threaded tang adapted to a nut in the handle, and abuttingagainst the end of a metal tube on which the nut is formed, is thesubject of another application filed by me August 27,1883, Serial No.104, 859.

It is immaterial to my invention how the nut is embedded in or attachedto the handle, or what kind of a nut is used, providing it be sdeconstructed that it cannot turn in the han- I claim as my invention 1.The combination of a tang of a file or JOSIAH F. FRENCH.

scribing witnesses.

\Vitnesses:

HARRY L. ASHENEELTER, HARRY SMITH.

